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Sophie Hurwitz

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 5, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Sophie Hurwitz

    You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules (opens the original)

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    A volunteer grabs a gallon of water at a water and food distribution drive held by College Hill Baptist Church and the World Central kitchen on March 7, 2021 in Jackson, Mississippi. Michael M. Santiago/Getty On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated water. The lawsuit, first filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians’ constituti

  2. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Sophie Hurwitz

    The Trumps’ crypto project just got one step closer to becoming a bank (opens the original)

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    Trump appears at a March 2025 White House cryptocurrency summit alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose department houses the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Chris Kleponis/CNP/Zuma Federal regulators have given President Donald Trump’s family crypto business a conditional approval to operate like a bank. On Friday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—led by Trump appointee Jonathan Gould—announced that World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture controlled by the Tr

  3. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Sophie Hurwitz

    The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves (opens the original)

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    The "Conductive Distraction and De-escalation devices" manufactured by Compliant Technologies can cause a person to drop to the ground in pain with one touch.Mother Jones illustration; GLOVE user manual/Compliant Technologies In 2022, Assistant Chief Adam Glueck, of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in southeastern Missouri, purchased electric shock gloves for his officers after learning about them at a trade show. And his employees, he said, couldn’t get enough of them. “If I try to take awa

  4. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Sophie Hurwitz

    “The ICE Agent Behind Me Grabbed the Back of My Shirt and Just Threw Me Like a Sack of Trash” (opens the original)

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    A 68-year-old nurse who brought her mobile clinic to serve visitors at an ICE detention center, only to be thrown to the ground by ICE agents. A pair of cemetery workers who were maced and handcuffed at work after ICE agents broke through a gate to reach them. A family of six wrongly detained for […]

  5. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Sophie Hurwitz

    George Santos Got Busted For Manipulating Political Betting Markets—and Seems to Have Little Remorse (opens the original)

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    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Friday that former congressman and current legend George Santos has been fined $35,000 for attempting to place bets on his own attendance of the State of the Union in February. He’s also been banned from the prediction-market platform Kalshi for 3 years. According to the CFTC: While buying […]

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